Governance & Administration

Technical Leadership

The technical leadership structure for the Yocto Project is hierarchical and based on a meritocracy presided over by a "benevolent dictator", similar to that of the Linux kernel. The project architect at the top is responsible for all decisions and actions, and also functions as a default maintainer for those subsystems and layers who do not have a current maintainer. A tree of maintainers works underneath the architect - these maintainers handle the details of many of the bugs, patches, and ideas that come up.

Yocto Project Architect

Richard Purdie

Sub-system and BSP/Layer Maintainers

Note that not all layers are represented on this list. For up-to-date information on maintainers for individual layers, visit the source code repository, click a layer, click "tree", and then read the README or MAINTAINERS file for that layer.